The %{password(...)} macro in pastemacroexpander.cpp in the KDE Paste Applet before 4.10.5 in kdeplasma-addons does not properly generate passwords, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass authentication via a brute-force attack.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - kdeplasma-addons: Weak passwords generated by PasteMacroExpander (CVE-2013-2120)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

kde 4.10.4 bugfix release, see also:
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.10.4.php

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
198543	RHEL 6 : kdeplasma-addons (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
67272	Fedora 17 : analitza-4.10.4-1.fc17 / ark-4.10.4-1.fc17 / audiocd-kio-4.10.4-1.fc17 / etc (2013-10182)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
67268	Fedora 18 : analitza-4.10.4-1.fc18 / ark-4.10.4-1.fc18 / audiocd-kio-4.10.4-1.fc18 / etc (2013-10130)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low
67265	Fedora 19 : analitza-4.10.4-1.fc19 / ark-4.10.4-1.fc19 / audiocd-kio-4.10.4-1.fc19 / etc (2013-10052)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	low

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2013-2120

high

Tenable Plugins

high

low

low

low